11-letter words containing u, n, s, o, r, c
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- discounters — Plural form of discounter.
- discoursing — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- documenters — Plural form of documenter.
- ecoconsumer — A consumer who makes purchasing decisions partly or largely on the basis of ecological issues.
- emunctories — Plural form of emunctory.
- enunciators — Plural form of enunciator.
- eructations — Plural form of eructation.
- facinerious — (in the works of Shakespeare) extremely wicked
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- fluorescein — an orange-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 12 O 5 , that in alkaline solutions produces an orange color and an intense green fluorescence: used to trace subterranean waters and in dyes.
- fluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- frontcourts — Plural form of frontcourt.
- furunculous — Furuncular.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- icosandrous — belonging to the Icosandria, a class of plants
- incongruous — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
- incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- incuriosity — The quality or state of lacking curiosity.
- incuriously — In an incurious manner.
- infructuose — Not yielding fruit.
- infructuous — (Pakistan and India only; of a project etc) not fruitful.
- instruction — machine instruction
- instructors — Plural form of instructor.
- insurrectos — Plural form of insurrecto.
- intercourse — dealings or communication between individuals, groups, countries, etc.
- introducers — Plural form of introducer.
- isoceraunic — representing, having, or indicating equality in the frequency or intensity of thunderstorms: isoceraunic line; isoceraunic map.
- isochronous — isochronal.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- juan carlos — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- knockwursts — Plural form of knockwurst.
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- microfungus — A fungus in which no sexual process has been observed or in which the reproductive organs are microscopic.
- mini-course — a brief intensive course of study
- minicourses — Plural form of minicourse.
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- neuroticism — the state of having traits or symptoms characteristic of neurosis.
- nicostratus — a son of Menelaus and Helen who, with his illegitimate brother Megapenthes, expelled Helen from Sparta when Menelaus died.
- non-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- non-cursive — (of handwriting) in flowing strokes with the letters joined together.